ECAC 2015-16

[SLU65]

Brown shuts out Colgate 5-0 in the "Friendship Tournament in Belfast Ireland.  Announcers said the game was for ECAC points - don't know if that's right.  Brown now gets winner of Mass-Lowell v Northeastern for another OOC game. That Lowell-NEastern game starts shortly on NESN.[/quot  

While I have always  respected the hockey knowledge I have seen displayed on this site I must confess, as a native of  the  IRELAND, a sense of disappointment re  knowledge of European political  geography
herein displayed.   To wit:  Belfast - while it  is on the island of Ireland- is correctly (sadly) noted as Belfast, U.K. not part of the 26 County Republic of Ireland.  Ever the pedant!

[Chris '03]

Yale down two early in Providence.

[Chris '03]

And Yale scores twice in twenty seconds and leads 3-2.

[Iceberg]

Yale loses 4-3 after Providence gets 2 goals in the 3rd.

Dartmouth and Michigan are currently tied 1-1 late in the 3rd at Yost.

Edit: Those two now in overtime but Dartmouth with a PP after some rather nasty stuff near the end.

[ursusminor]

Brown ties Lowell in OT.  Shootout now?

There was a shootout and Lowell won, but it is a tie for NCAA purposes.

[Trotsky]

Brown ties Lowell in OT.  Shootout now?

There was a shootout and Lowell won, but it is a tie for NCAA purposes.

As is our game with BU.

[andyw2100]

I realize the pairwise doesn't mean a heck of a lot this early in the season, but I thought it was interesting that the ECAC has seven teams in the top 16, including the teams at 1 and 2. I don't imagine something like this happens very often.

1   Quinnipiac   59   13-0-2   .9333   1   .6642*   1
2   Harvard   58   6-1-1   .8125   5   .6386*   2
3   Providence   57   9-0-3   .8750   3   .6289*   3
4   St. Cloud State   56   10-3-0   .7692   9   .6242*   4
5   Nebraska-Omaha   55   11-2-1   .8214   4   .6203*   5
6   Boston College   54   12-1-0   .9231   2   .6137*   6
7   North Dakota   53   11-2-2   .8000   6t   .5994*   7
8   Massachusetts-Lowell   52   10-1-4   .8000   6t   .5914*   8
9   Cornell   51   6-1-2   .7778   8   .5846*   9
10   Yale   50   5-2-2   .6667   15t   .5828*   10
11   St. Lawrence   49   8-3-2   .6923   13   .5826*   11
12t   Denver   47   7-3-2   .6667   15t   .5741   12
12t   Michigan   47   7-2-2   .7273   10   .5728   13
14   Rensselaer   46   8-5-2   .6000   21   .5577   14
15   Merrimack   45   6-2-4   .6667   15t   .5444   15
16   Clarkson   44   7-4-2   .6154   19   .5405   16

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

It does, but historically it was the WCHA that it happened to.

[Chris '03]

Too bad Brown didn't hold on yesterday. May be one of those little results that has a big impact in March. Between Brown, Cornell, and Yale all leading HEA teams woulda been nice to get at least one W. Throw Dartmouth surrendering the lead in there too...

[Swampy]

Despite this, five of the top ten teams in the KRACH are ECAC. We're #7 in KRACH and tied with Sucks for #3 in the ECAC.

Thinking ahead to how young we were going to be this year, many of us -- myself included -- did not expect too much. It's still early, but gray skies seem to be clearing up. ::cheer::

[upprdeck]

how many of the forwards made it back for the BU game?

[Trotsky]

Thinking ahead to how young we were going to be this year, many of us -- myself included -- did not expect too much. It's still early, but gray skies seem to be clearing up. ::cheer::

Same here.  I am very happy with what's happened so far.

[Trotsky]

how many of the forwards made it back for the BU game?

Only Hilbrich.

[Jim Hyla]

Thinking ahead to how young we were going to be this year, many of us -- myself included -- did not expect too much. It's still early, but gray skies seem to be clearing up. ::cheer::

Same here.  I am very happy with what's happened so far.

Not to throw a wet blanket on all this, after all I'm happy as well, but the combined record of opponent games that we won is 14-50-9, lost or tied is 25-6-7. At this stage of the season rankings are heavily weighted to record.
We still need to show that we can beat the good teams and it just so happens that our upcoming schedule allows us an opportunity to do just that. By Jan 10 we should be able to tell how good we really are. I'm hoping that with a healthy team, we can do well, but I suspect if we falter, the Schafer must go birds will come out again (not that I think you 2 are in that class).

The best thing that I see from our early record is that we're beating the teams we should, but often we are having trouble doing that and that's worrisome.

[scoop85]

Thinking ahead to how young we were going to be this year, many of us -- myself included -- did not expect too much. It's still early, but gray skies seem to be clearing up. ::cheer::

Same here.  I am very happy with what's happened so far.

Not to throw a wet blanket on all this, after all I'm happy as well, but the combined record of opponent games that we won is 14-50-9, lost or tied is 25-6-7. At this stage of the season rankings are heavily weighted to record.
We still need to show that we can beat the good teams and it just so happens that our upcoming schedule allows us an opportunity to do just that. By Jan 10 we should be able to tell how good we really are. I'm hoping that with a healthy team, we can do well, but I suspect if we falter, the Schafer must go birds will come out again (not that I think you 2 are in that class).

The best thing that I see from our early record is that we're beating the teams we should, but often we are having trouble doing that and that's worrisome.

No argument that we have many tough tests ahead. That being said, it's been nice to see the contributions we're getting throughout the lineup, and if we can get some of the walking wounded back to improve the depth, we should have our share of good moments ahead.  We're certainly not the most talented team out there, but so far we've been solid in all phases. No question that we're playing much smarter than in recent years, with far fewer dumb penalties.